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ROBIN WILLIAMS
(Seymour “Sy” Parrish)
Robin Williams received both the Best Supporting
Actor Academy Award® and the Screen Actors Guild “Actor”
award for his compassionate, intelligent portrayal of Dr.
Sean McGuire in the 1997 film “Good Will Hunting.”
His first feature film was Robert Altman’s
“Popeye” in 1980. Audiences then embraced a more
poignant Williams in his portrayal of T.S. Garp in George
Roy Hill’s hugely successful “The World According
to Garp” followed by Paul Mazursky’s “Moscow
on the Hudson.” Barry Levinson’s landmark film,
“Good Morning Vietnam” earned Williams his first
Academy Award nomination, with Peter Weir’s enormously
popular “Dead Poets Society,” earning him a second
Oscar® nomination.
Subsequently Williams starred opposite Robert
De Niro in Penny Marshall’s “Awakenings” (bringing
him a special honor from the National Board of Review) followed
by Terry Gilliam’s “The Fisher King,” for which
Williams received his third Academy Award® nomination.
He also starred in Barry Levinson’s “Toys,”
Steven Spielberg’s “Hook,” and Mike Nichols’
“The Birdcage.”
Williams received Golden Globe Awards for
his unforgettable performances in “Mrs. Doubtfire”
and “The Fisher King” and also earned a Special
Achievement Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
for his vocal contributions as Genie in the animated blockbuster
feature “Aladdin.”
Recently, Williams’ successes have
included Les Mayfield’s “Flubber” and the 1998
box office hit “Patch Adams” directed by Tom Shadyac.
In 1999, Williams executive produced and starred in Blue Wolf
Productions’ “Jakob The Liar,” a story of life
in a Nazi-occupied Polish ghetto. In 2000, he again teamed-up
with director Chris Columbus in the screen adaptation of the
Isaac Asimov story “Bicentennial Man.”
First capturing the attention of television
audiences when he guest-starred as Mork on the hit sit-com
“Happy Days,” Williams was quickly signed for the
spin-off series “Mork and Mindy.” Williams, who
began his career as a stand-up comedian, has won four Grammy
Awards, including one for “Robin Williams Live at the
Met” on HBO, the culmination of a 23-city SRO tour. He
also won Emmy Awards for the television specials, “Carol,
Carl, Whoopi and Robin” and “ABC Presents A Royal
Gala.”
In the upcoming year, Williams will star
in Danny DeVito’s “Death To Smoochy” and opposite
Al Pacino in Chritopher Nolan’s “Insomnia.”
He is also active in several humanitarian
organizations, and has been a primary force in “Comic
Relief,” an annual benefit to aid the homeless, which
has raised America’s consciousness, and $38 million to
date.
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